Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 267

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SIS. SITE MEETS WITH DELAY Board Admits Illegality of Purchase —Can Not Be Completed for Two Weeks —Gives Protesters Time N to File for Injunction. Illegality of the contract entered into by the school board for the purchase of property for the new Shortridge High School on FortySixth St., between Central Ave. and Washington Blvd., was acknowledged by the board, Tuesday night. Minority faction board members pointed out that the board had failed to suspend rules or table the resolution to enter into a contract to buy the property until the following regular meeting, and had acted on it immediately. It is the rule that a resolution for any expenditure of more than S2OO can not be acted on until the meeting after it is introduced. The first resolution to buy the property was rescinded. It was then renewed and tabled until the next regular meeting, which will be held in two weeks. Another resolution to go ahead with the purchase by taking $120,000 from the special school fund was tabled until the next regular meeting, on recommendation of Board Attorney Martin Hugg. The contract to buy is with Frank F. Woolling, real estate man, who holds options on the location. Board members were anxiotis over the rule, because it might give north side protesters, objecting against abandoning of the Thirty-Fourth and Meridian St. site for the FortySixth St. tract, an opportunity to file the petition for an injunction be(Tum to Page 3) G. O.P. ACCEPTS TARIFF FIGHT Will Agree to Democratic Inquiry Plan. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, March 10.—Republican leaders in Congress have decided to accept the Democratic challenge to fight out the next congreMional elections on. the tariff issue. Arrangements were made in the Senate today whereby Senator Robinson, Democratic floor leader may obtain adoption of his resolution specifying the finance committee conduct an investigation of the flexible provisions of the Republican tariff and the way it is being administered. Senate Republicans led by Chairman Smoot of the Finance Committee are confident the investigation will furnish food for their side as well as for the Democrats. FIVE MEN ARE STILL IN MINE Ten Rescued Alive After 26 Hours Imprisonment. BV United Press ECCLES, W. Va„ March 10.—Rescue crews today are exploring the inner recesses of shaft No. 5 of the Crab Orchard Improvement Company’s mine here, seeking five men still entombed. Two of these are known to be dead and three are listed as “unaccounted for.” Ten men were rescued alive after almost twenty-six hours of entombment in No. 5 shaft. Thirteen bodies have been removed from shaft No. 5 and one man, rescued with forty others from shaft No, 6, died Monday night. SEATTLE ELECTS WOMAN Mrs. Bertha Landes Chosen Mayor of Pacific Oast City. BV United Press SEATTLE, Wash., March 10.— Final tabulation of yesterday’s municipal election ballots today showed Mrs. Bertha Landes elected mayor.

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DA Y’S FIRE DAMAGE IS $186,000

Varnish Company Early Morning Blaze, Believed to Have Been Incendiary, Results in Loss of $30,000. 9 A $30,000 fire early today at the Lindeman Wood Finish Company, 1602 W. Washington St., which company officials believe was incendiary, and two other sifiall blazes boosted fire losses in Indianapolis in the last twenty-four hours to $186,000. The Indiana Paper Company I plant, 521 E. Washington St., and the manufacturing building at the Lindeman plant were destroyed Loss in the Indiana Paper Company blaze was estimated at $150,000. One fireman was injured. Spectacular work of firemen pre vented flames at the Lindeman plant from spreading to a wooden building in front in which tanks of highly explosive materials used in : paint and varnish manufacture were j stored. If the flames had reached the ben zine and alcohol stored there an ex plosion which would have rocked the city would have followed, firemen said. Possibility that the fire may have been started in revenge by several yeggs who looted the company safe four times in a few weeks and were finally captured and sentenced to penal institutions, was advanced by Harry Gompf, secretary-treasurer and general manager. The blaze broke out at 3:50 a. m. and when Battalion Chief Blackwell arrived he said he found the fire shooting twenty feet out the first floor windows. Chief Hutsell arrived later and took command this floor is used for the storage of Silax 1 powder, a noninflamable substance and for this reasons fire officials and Gompf could not discover an origin. McKinney immediately set -the (Turn to Page 3) CONNY TO QUIT FILMS Miss Talmadge io Become Old-Fash-ioned Wife. By United Press NEW YORK, March 10.—Constance Talmadge will forsake the movies for the role of the old-fash-ioned wife, according to Joseph M. Schenck, motion picture producer and brother-in-iaw of t ie new Mrs. Alastair Macintosh, which is Connie’s name now.

RAIN FORECAST GIVEN Should Start by Evening, Says U. S. Weather Bureau. Indianapolis is due to get out its umbrellas tonight and Thursday, according to the forecast for rain given by the United States Weather Bureau. The rainfall is expected to start by evening. Temperature should be above freezing, Meteorologist J. H. Armington said. The mercury stood at 34, or 3 degrees above normal, at 7 a. m. TELEPHONE’S BIRTHDAY Chapter of Pioneers Will Honor Event With Banquet. Members of the Hoosier chapter of Telephone Pioneers will attend a banquet tonight at the Columbia Club, celebrating the fiftieth birthday of the telephone. On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell had a conversation with a helper, over a crude phone. . The Telephone Pioneers arc persons who have had twenty years or more of service in telephone work. ■UMPIRE IN POLITICS Peter Miller Enters Representative Race on Anti-Coffin Ticket. A baseball umpire is one of the first anti-Coffln Republican candidates to enter the race for the House of Representatives. Peter H. Miller, 318 Bicking St., one of the precinct committeemen ousted by the George V. Coffin faction of the G. O. P„ today filed as a candidate. UPDIKE IS CANDIDATE Congressman Files Application for Re-election. Congressman Ralph E. Updike of Indianapolis, representing the Seventh Indiana district, today filed an application at the Statehouse as a Republican primary candidate for re-election. Judge Harry O. Chamberlain of the Marion Circuit Court filed for renomination, as well as eight old members of the State Legislature and two new aspirants. BOYS HELD FOR THEFT Policeman Charges Youths Stole Ilorse and Wagon. / J Two Negro boys, ages 12 and 14, were held today at the Juvenile Detention Home, on charge of stealing a horse and wagon. They were arrested Tuesday by Patrolman Hart near State Fairground after they were reported delinquent from school. The boys said they were going to the Fairground to haul trash. They said they borrowed the horse and wagon.

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Above, ruins of the Indiana Paper Company plant, 521 E. Washington St. Below, inside of tlie Lindeman Wood Finish plant, 1602 W. Washington St.

ASKS COOLIDGE FOR DRY TRUTH New York Democrat Challenges Cal. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 10. — Charging President Coolidge “dare not, for political consideration, tell the country the plain truth about prohibition in a straight-hewn New England way,” Representative Boring Black, New York, Democrat, today called upon Coolidge to tell the country the prohibition law cannot be enforced without modifications. Coupled with this new wet move came a novel proposal from Representative Andre Somers, Democrat, New York, for a Congressional poll throughout the nation on prohibition. He introduced a resolution calling for ballots which Congressmen could distribute in their districts. ITHACA MAN NAMED Ralph Wilcox Selected as Assistant State Forester. Appointment of Ralph E. Wilcox of Ithaca, <N. Y., as assistant State forester, was announced today by Richard Lieber, department of conservation director. Wilcox is a graduate of the Pennsylvania School of Forestry and former .assistant forester in that State. He has been working out a Master’s degree at Cornell University. FAMOUS SUIT GOES UP State Supreme Court Gets Case on Colored High School. State Supreme Court has inherited the now famous law suit of Archie Greathouse, Negro, against the Indianapolis school board, to prevent erection of a colored high school building, and will hear oral arguments on the case March 18. EIGHT CONVICTS ESCAPE Bu Timed Spec ial ATLANTA, March 10.—Eight white prisoners escaped, one guard was shot and two others were badly beaten up Tuesday night in a muting of convicts at the north side camp here. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 34 10 a. m 39 7 a. m 34 11 a. m 41 8 a. m....,i. 36 12 (noon .... 43 9 a. m..NN 38 1 p. m 44

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1926

13 ARE GIVEN PAROLES Four Marion County Convict** Included in Group. Four Marion County convicts were among a group of thirteen prisoners in State institutions who received paroles today from Governor Jackson. Most of the men had served the minimum portions of indeterminate sentences and their release was merely a formality. The four local men receiving clemency: Roosevelt Greer, Negro, sentenced to two to fourteen years for secand degree burglary; George Taylor, Negro, sentenced to five to fourteen years for assault and battery to rob; Charles Gibson, sentenced to one to fourteen years for grand larceny, and Carl White, Negro, sentenced to five to fourteen years, for robbery. All had been sentenced to the Reformatory and transferred to the State Prison. REVUE WILL BE SATURDAY NIGHT Firms Enter Acts for Riverside Dance Affair. Home talent, arranged by business firms, will comprise the All-Indian apolis Winter Garden Revue at Riverside Dance Palace, Saturday night. Among the firms that have entered acts are the Polk Milk Company. Mae Berry dance studio; R. W Durham & Cos., Nu Grape Bottling Works, James Whitaker Auto Cos.. Louis Stockman dance studio Union Tire Company, Peoples Out fitting Company, and National Furniture Company. A special stage Is being erected at the dance palace to accommodate the big revue. There also will be a trio of girls Charlestonlng on roller skates; the Riverside Harmony Four, and a half dozen Charlestoners from the Nickel Plate Railroad. MAN* SLASHES THROAT George Gallagher Dies in Ambulance on Way to Hospital. Coroner Paul F. Robinson today investigated death of George Gallagher, 34, of 912 Fletcher Ave., who died Tuesday in city hospital ambulance jihortly after he slashed his wrists v and throat at his home.

SPIRIT MILEAGE TALK SUBJECT Noon-Day Lenten Service Held at Keith’s. Dr. Frederick F. Shannon, in his noonday Lenten services at B. F. Keith’s today continued his comparison of human life to automobiles. “If the speedomoter of faith is registering the amount of • spirit mileage, then we know in what direction we are going," he said. “This invisible speedomoter registering the mileage of the Invisible soul is proof where you are going. “By faith you can remove the mountains of sin.” NF.W NOTE TO MEXICO Expresses Hopes for “Kind” Deportation of Americans. BV'Tim-r* BvecltU WASHINGTON, March 10.— American Ambassador Sheffield, acting under instructions from the State department, has presented a note to the Mexican Government, expressing the hope that American citizens will not be subjected to undue treatment in deportation cases Involving alien religious teachers. AGAINST FACTIONALISM Junior C, of C. Secretary' Discusses Million Population Idea. Factional strife must be laid aside when Indianapolis prepares herself for a million population, declared Harmon Snoke, secretary of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Tuesday night, in an address before the Sherman-Emerson Civic League. W. H. Harrison, vice president of the Junior Chamber, urged Indianapolis to clean-up and paint-up. ADAMS WORKERS BUSY Women Organize to Support Republican Senatorial Aspirant. Organizatiop of women in behalf of the candidacy of Claris Adams for the Republican long term senatorial nomination is under way today at headquarters at 919 Lemcke Bldg., in charge of Mrs. Carina C. Warrington, Ft. Wayne, former State probation officer. Mrs. Warrington is an mtomey and has taken a prominent part in Republican politics. 1

ONE DOOR 1 AJAR FOR GERMANY € League Proper Swinging Portals Open on Subcommission’s Recommendations Council Bolts

Stick. By Henry Wood United Press Staff t'orresvondent GENEVA, March 10.—The League* of Nations council met secretly this afternoon in an informal effort to solve the crisis arising from Germany’s refusal to recede from her demand that she be admitt xl alone to council membership. With the councellors were Ihe negotiators of Locarno. One Hope It is admitted that the only possible alternative to German concessions would be for the council to find a basis upon* which Brazil and Spain would consent to postponement of further consideration of their council candidacies until September. when a commission would make recommendations at the regular League meeting. While the council met in secret, the subcommission of the League’s political commission unanimously recommended Germany’s admission to the League of Nations. Door Opens All twelve members of the subcommission, Including representatives of the allies, expressed satisfaction as to Germany's Intentions to carry out her international obligations. With the Bubeommission’s recommendations. the League of Nations began swinging open the doors which will admit Germany to membership (Turn to Page 3) IMPEACHMENT CASESTARTED House ;o Get Judge Charges in Two Weeks. JiV United Press WASHINGTON. March 10.—A subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee was preparing articles of Impeachment today against Federal Judge George W. English of the eastern district of Illinois. After voting Tuesday for impeachment of the Jurist, the Judiciary Committee directed a subcommittee to draft these articles, which will be presented to the House in about two weeks. The full committee will meet again next Tuesday to approve the subcommittee's efforts and will then probably report the case directly to the House. Chairman Graham, Pennsylvania, is expected to confer with House leaders today. He said most of the testimony against English related to his alleged manipulation of bankruptcy funds to his personal benefit. “We found no evidence to warrant a charge of high crime,’’ said Graham. “The committee recommended impeachment because it believed in maintaining the highest standard of judicial service.’’ DR. TODD IS OPTIMIST Says Civic Organizations Should Boost for City. “If the civic organizations of the city would get together and boost as hard as the real estate men do in Florida, the increase of Indianapolis’ population and industries would surpass all expectations,’’ said Dr. Austin H. Todd, city councilman, in a speech Tuesday night before the Riverside Civic Association in School No. 44, Twenty-First St. and Sugar Grove Ave. Dr. Todd was optimistic In his outloook as to the city’s future development. The Rev. C. G. Baker, superintenent of Hawthorne Social Service, also spoke.

She Stole Car, but Couldn’t Drive PIJLICE today are looking for a woman automobile uJ thief who doesn’t know how to drive a car. A Dodge car, belonging to A. E. Batton, 1903 N. New Jersey St., was reported stolen (rom W. St. Joseph St., about 8 p. m., Tuesday. A few minutes later a car, meandering around, crookedly crossed N. Pennsylvania St., Jumped the sidewalk, struck a water plug and finally landed near the plate glass windows of Creagh’s pharmacy", 930 N. Pennsylvania St. The woman jumped out and murumring something about going for help, walked rapidly east on St. Joseph St. When she did not return, police found that the car was the one stolen from Batton. The car suffered a broken axle.

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'Attorney General Gilliom Asks Shu- | maker, Miles and Martin Be Cited by Supreme Court for Statements in League Report. Request that Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent; Ethan A. Miles, league attorney, and Jess E. Martin, a trustee of the league, be cited by State Supremo Court for contempt was contained in an action brought before the court today by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. Gilliom’s action was taken following receipt of a letter from the headquarters committee of the league’s trustees hacking up statements made by Shumaker in his 1925 report, which Gilliom said were an attack on the Supreme Court.

In his action, Gilliom listed the points in Shumaker’s annual report which he alleged to be contemptuous of the highest State tribunal. Gilliom not only asked to take up the case In the name of the State, but suggested to the court that various Interested attorneys throughout the United tSates be admitted In the case as friends of the court. “Collaborators’ Although Gilliom laid principal blame for the alleged contemptuous statements on Shumaker, he added Miles and Martin, as defendants, charging they “collaborated” In the report. Tlie report, Gilliom alleges In the action, was conceived for the purpose of influencing tlie court in its decisions on liquor cases and “for defaming the court before tlie people of tlie State of Indiana and destroying the integrity of the judges in the minds of tlie people.” Shumaker’s report was delivered to trustees at a meeting Jan. 19, 1926, and subsequently was printed In pamphlet form. It came into the hands tof Gilliom by accident. In it not only was the treatment of appealed prohibition cases in the Supremo Court mentioned, but the attorney general’s office was charged with "inefficiency.” Marlon County courts also were scored iibernlly in the report. Gilliom, early last week, dispatched a letter to each of the fiftyI three trustees of the league calling | their attention to Shumaker’s i charges, refuting them, and threatening to bring an action against Shumaker for violation of the corrupt I practices net Tor failure to include campaign expenses of the league in his audit. In the same letter Gilliom intimated that the Supreme Court might see fit later to defend Itself against Shumaker’s allegations. He sent a second letter Monday asking a reply by March 15. Several trustees of the League, It was learned today, have given Gil* Horn their personal word that they knew nothing abou\: publication of | the report and disclaiming responsl- | billty for charges contained in it. Headquarters committee of the Lecgue met Tuesday in Indianapolis and decided on the letter sent to Gilliom this morning in nnswer to that of the attorney general.

Before Court Gilliom's information, as the document is known legally, was filed shortly before noon in the office of j Zachariah T. Dungan, clerk of the I Supreme ani Appellate Courts. It ! will be handed to the court ThursI day morning, along with other material, according to Joel A. Baker, deputy clerk. Today’s procedure, according to attorneys, brings the matter directly before Supreme Court for action. There is no way at tills time to determine just when the court will act on the request, it was sai<JOn learning that Gilliom had brought an action,- Miles laughed and declared, “It’s the first time I ever was arrested in my life.” "Hard to Prove” “They’ll have an awful time, however, proving that Martin’ and I ‘collaborated’ in the Shumaker report. I never even saw it until after adjournment of the trustees’ meeting Jan. 19. That’s when It was read, I understand,” Miles continued. Shumaker was out of the city today", having left’ Tuesday afternoon to attend a national Anti-Saloon League conference in Washington. Martin, who frequently handles legal work for the League, In addition to the duties of his trusteeship, also was absent from headquarters. Gilliom in his Information after listing the defendants, charged; That the above defendants under the direction of said defendant Shumaker collaborated in the preparation of statements concerning this court, its judges and decisions in respect to violations of the Stato of Indiana concerning Intoxicating liquors, and caused the same to be printed in a pamphlet on or about the nineteenth day of January'. 1926, and which pamphlet purports to be an annual report of the defendant Shumaker As superintendent of the said league, and purports to be published by order of the trustees of the said league. “That the said statements are false and contemptuous of, tills court as will herinafter be shown and that the said defendants caused the said report to be published and distributed among the people of the State of Indiana in tiie manner and for the purpose hereinafter shown; that a copy of said pamphfet is marked Exhibit A” and is attached hereto and marie a part hereof. ' “That the said statements were not prepared by the trustees of the said league other than the defendant Martin, or ordered pub(Tum to Page Z)

Forecast REAIN tonight and Thursday; warmer tonight with lowest temperature above freezing.

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KLAN LEADER RAPS G. 0. P. COUNTY HEAD City Clerk Boyce Admits He Would Take Coffin’s Place. Denunciation of George V. Coffin, Republican county chairman, and an admission ho would agree to be chairman if elected by the precinct committeemen, are embodied in a statement issued by City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr., a Klan leader, today. Tlie statement came from Boyce at the office of Charles J. Orbison, Klan political leader, where %vcre assembled Goorge E. Elliott, exalted cyclops; Oren I>avis, head of Marlon County Horse Thief Detectives' Association; City Recreation Director Jesse B. McClure, and others. “In the last few weeks it has become increasingly evident that welldefined plans are on foot to establish an invincible Republican political machine and that its purpose will bn to perpetuate a spoils system that is already moro than locally notorious,” Boyce’s statement do* clarcs. HUMOR LENTEN TALK SUBJECT ‘No Short Cut to Spiritual/ Says Rector. The Rev. Floyd Van TCeuren, rector of Christ’s Church, preached the noon-day lenten sermon today. He chose for his subject, ”A Sense of Humor.” lie said in part, “One thing about a sense of humor Is we feel the present Is so good wo don’t worry about anything else. Wo must obviously, then, find a way to see that any present, even the worst, Is the best, if only we know how to uao It.” The Rev. C. Russell Moodey, pastor of Grace Episcopal Church, Muncie, will preach Thursday. Friday, tho Rev. William Burrows, archdeacon of the Dloceso of Indianapolis, will be in charge. HAS FEAR FOR SMOKE BATTLE Inspector Tells Why He Will • Not Resign. Doubt that the smoke abntament campaign will be actively pursued motivated his refusal to resign us city smoke Inspector, 11. F. Temple ton said today, Templeton refused to submit a resignation to tho board of safety Tuesday, though the board had named State Representative Joseph Buchanan, George V. Coffin politic.l henchman, to his position after a perfunctory examination

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